Best I understand the encryption key is needed to encrypt and decrypt, so if the malware isn’t written well enough it may well continue to store the encryption key in memory.

There’s some old malware on archive.org that just pulls the FAT off the filesystem into memory and offers a dice roll to restore it

Wait, we were taking backups?

The advice I’ve always heard is disconnect network but leave powered for forensics/recovery. Some ransomware store the decryption key soley in memory, so it is lost upon power loss

Ooh! Just unlocked a memory of a computer I was setting up and one piece of software assumed its version of .NET would be present and just failed install every time because it wasn’t. I ended up just installing it later once I had other stuff installed

When I worked support for an android device manufacturer I had some strange issues with other apps that were resolved by clearing the cache in Chrome. Its all webpages all the way up and down baby!

One of my coworkers got super into it and got into the high 20s I made an off-hand comment about wondering what it does for rule 34 and he responded “gasp I must know!” Then a couple days later messages me a screenshot on teams. Spoiler: it goes “ehhh let’s just skip this rule”

Reminds me of a funny moment in my IT internship, ahead of an audit one of the sysadmins came over and was saying “yeah so I pulled all of the department password hashes to check for weak/compromised accounts and noticed one person has the same sysadmin and user password hash” and my boss went “wait everyone doesn’t do that?” And after realizing they outed themselves turned bright red and changed their admin password

Ah crap. I think I was thinking of Eric S Raymond

If I remember correctly Linus uses i3 primarily, so instead of wasting 20% of the screen on UI and compensating with a second screen you only look at 30% of the time, it just tiles your windows so you can make more efficient use of the screen you have

Yeah IPv6 has some pretty sweet innovations baked in. More efficient packets and routing, reduced performance hit by oversized broadcast domains, etc. But potentially problematically it technically does not allow for NAT so every computer has a publicly routable IP address. It does however have a very nice system for link-local networks.

I think the biggest brainfuck for IPv6 is managing a dual stack network because you end up translating concepts between IPv4 and IPv6 that really aren’t meant to be translated

This has been the same experience for me, Active/Hot shows posts from Monday because they’re still gaining comments but New shows genuinely new posts. I think the algorithm may simply not be tuned for tens of thousands of users

As someone who loosely follows that sub I always have to step away pretty quick because folks are so negative about their jobs